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Creating safe spaces for language, culture and life
The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences brings together leading thinkers, academics, researchers, policy-makers and innovators to explore some of the world’s most challenging issues. Congress celebrates the vitality and quality of Canadian...

Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums
Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums begins with my memories of visiting the Royal BC Museum as a child, as a young adult, and later as a museum scholar. I have a nostalgic fondness for this museum and its...

Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73
Charles Francis Hall’s American North Pole Expedition was probably the most bizarrely disastrous expedition in the history of polar exploration. Although quite lavishly financed by the United States government and blessed with unusually favourable...

Indigenous ways of knowing and the academy: Part 2 of 2
Read Indigenous ways of knowing and the academy: Part 1 of 2 On April 26 I published a guest post on this Federation blog on Indigenous ways of knowing and the academy. Here I want to share more details of a specific gathering at Congress 2017 that...

Indigenous ways of knowing and the academy: Part 1 of 2
Read Indigenous ways of knowing and the academy: Part 2 of 2 I had the privilege of attending a conference marking the 20th anniversary of the release of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People (RCAP, 1996) last November. One of the participants at...

International student explores Indigenous youth wellbeing with arts and culture
Jessica Blain was a third-year undergraduate student from Australia’s University of Sydney. Through a Mitacs Globalink Research Internship at Concordia University, she helped evaluate the impact of a community-based theatre program on the wellbeing...

Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow
Francis Pegahmagabow (1889–1952), a member of the Ojibwe nation, was born in Shawanaga, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier for bravery and the most accomplished sniper in...

Litigation and negotiation work together to advance Aboriginal rights, says professor
As a historian specializing in Aboriginal rights and history, Arthur J. Ray has often been called as an expert witness in court proceedings involving Aboriginal land claims. After decades of research, and many appearances in court, Ray found himself...

Se dire arabe au Canada : un siècle d'histoire migratoire
Lorsque je me suis intéressée à la genèse de l’immigration arabe au Canada, j’ai constaté que si les « Arabes » suscitaient l’attention des médias, des sociologues et des experts, leur histoire, leurs identités et leurs actions politiques étaient...